Readers' First Anniversaries: Out-of-town adventures recalled

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Apr 28, 2012 at 12:01 AMApr 28, 2012 at 12:19 PM

Columbus residents Jack and Marilyn Redden, 80 and 78, will mark their 60th anniversary on Aug. 27 with dinner at the Worthington Inn - where they also celebrated their 50th anniversary (as did Mrs. Redden's parents and grandparents):

In recognition of the royal couple’s first anniversary, The Dispatch recently invited readers to share their celebration stories. Here are a few of our favorites:

• Columbus residents Jack and Marilyn Redden, 80 and 78, will mark their 60th anniversary on Aug. 27 with dinner at the Worthington Inn — where they also celebrated their 50th anniversary (as did Mrs. Redden’s parents and grandparents):

My wife and I celebrated our first anniversary in San Bernardino, Calif. I was in the Air Force, had served in Alaska during the Korean War and was stationed at Norton Air Force Base.

A year earlier, I had traveled to Columbus, where we were the first couple married in Beechwold Christian Church. (Actually, the church was meeting at Indian Springs Elementary School, so we said our vows at the home of my wife’s parents.)

Her father gave us a 1933 Plymouth, which we drove to California — in 1952! That was our honeymoon trip — with a water bag hanging on our bumper through the desert.